Adult social care in North West
Adult social worker jobs in St. Helens
Adult social care in St. Helens employs people in 50 filled social worker posts, on the most recent Skills for Care count. Below are the published figures for the area, and every advert on this site for the role right now.
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Published figures for St. Helens
What the official data says about St. Helens
Skills for Care recorded 50 filled social worker posts in St. Helens in 2024/25, out of 50 social worker posts in total.
The social worker role is 0.9% of the 5,500 filled adult social care posts in St. Helens. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in St. Helens, only 24.1% across all care roles in the area.
On filled social worker posts, St. Helens ranks 23rd of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 125 filled social worker posts, against 50 in St. Helens. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.
For the shape of the rest of the St. Helens workforce, the same release records 125 filled community support and outreach posts and 75 filled registered manager posts.
Reported median pay in St. Helens was £19.48 an hour for the social worker role and about £37,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in St. Helens only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.
Skills for Care withholds a vacancy rate, a turnover rate for the social worker role in St. Helens: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.
Full-time workers in St. Helens earn a median of £33,379 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in St. Helens at £24,900, £8,479 below it.
- Social worker, filled posts
- 50
- Social worker, median full-time annual pay
- £37,500
- Social worker, median hourly pay
- £19.48
- Social worker, posts in total
- 50
The social worker role
Adult social work is assessment and decision making under the Care Act. You work out what somebody needs, what the law says the council must do about it, and how to arrange support that the person actually recognises as their life.
Safeguarding runs through all of it, alongside mental capacity assessments, best interest decisions and the hard conversations with families who want a different answer from the one the assessment supports.
Social worker (adults) jobs in St. Helens: common questions
How many social worker jobs are there in St. Helens?
Skills for Care recorded 50 filled social worker posts in St. Helens in 2024/25. That is the size of the workforce, not a count of adverts. The live list on this page shows what is currently open in St. Helens.
What does a social worker earn in St. Helens?
Median reported pay in St. Helens was £19.48 an hour, or about £37,500 a year full time, from local authority and independent sector employers. Each advert states its own rate, and that is the figure that counts.
Do I need experience to apply for adult social worker jobs in St. Helens?
Social Work England registration. A recognised social work degree or postgraduate qualification. Enhanced DBS check, paid for by the employer. Each advert in St. Helens sets out what that employer asks for.